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Post by swanarcadian on May 20, 2018 10:21:18 GMT
Absorbed by Harrow UDC in 1934.
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Post by swanarcadian on Jun 25, 2018 21:48:07 GMT
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colinjg
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Living in the Past
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Post by colinjg on Jun 26, 2018 9:53:52 GMT
It may be worthwhile quoting some paragraphs from my website to give some background to Wealdstone UDC: Under the Local Government Act of 1894 and Local Government Board Order no. 31,845, in December 1894, the new parish of Holy Trinity (Wealdstone), having irregular and scattered boundaries — “varying in length from four to five miles between three long arms” — became Wealdstone Urban District (2,072 acres). On 1 October 1895, as a result of Local Government Board Order no. 33,399, a small part of Harrow-on-the-Hill UD (north of the centre of Hindes Road) was transferred to Wealdstone; a much larger area of Wealdstone UD (including portions of Greenhill south of the centre of Hindes Road, as well as its south-western “arm” towards Dabs Hill, Roxeth) was transferred to Harrow-on-the-Hill.
Between 1895 and 1914 Wealdstone developed rapidly and often sought a re-alignment of boundaries. A minor adjustment (Local Government Board Order no. 44,414) in the Hindes Road area on 24 September 1902 left Harrow-on-the-Hill with 2,028 acres, Wealdstone with 1,061 acres, Pinner with 3,782 acres and Harrow Weald with 2,373 acres. In 1912 a petition from Wealdstone for an extra 2,795 acres, mostly from Harrow Weald, was accepted by Middlesex County Council but was not sanctioned by the Local Government Board. Various schemes for more land were unsuccessfully presented in 1926.
Wealdstone Urban District Council, consisting of 12 members, met for the first time on 31 December 1894 at the Boys School, Wealdstone and for the last time on 15 March 1934 at the Council Offices in Peel Road. After the first election, whole Council elections took place every three years until the outbreak of the First World War. After the 1919 election, electoral arrangements were altered so that elections were held annually for one-third of the seats.
Although Wealdstone Independent Labour Party occasionally nominated candidates in the period before the First World War, a concerted effort to gain significant representation was not made until 1919 when five out of seven Labour nominees were elected. Eventually the Wealdstone Ratepayers’ Association organised candidates to oppose Labour and a full slate of Association candidates appeared at the 1925 and subsequent elections.As far as I am aware all elections and by-elections for Wealdstone UDC have been found and recorded in my website. A few electorate and turnout statistics are missing; I may be able to fill in some of the former, when time permits, through the practice of careful counting of entries from appropriate Register of Electors. I have been in the habit of accessing these on the computers at the London Metropolitan Archives where there is free access to Ancestry.com
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Post by swanarcadian on Jun 26, 2018 16:22:33 GMT
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